Well... the much better accepted translation would be "Year of the Rooster" (for those keeping track of Chinese New Year calendar)

So, January came and nearly gone, and 2017 is well and truly underway... perhaps a quick Journal update is in order.

Started off this year with a Christmas (2016)/New Years (2017) holiday to Asia, more specifically Hong Kong, Taipei and Japan, and managed to squeeze in a furry convention in the process.

"How is JMoF (Japan Meeting of Furries)?" my friends/followers/stalkers might ask...

I'll keep this one relatively brief.

Didn't enjoy it, to be brutally blunt. No disrespect to the organizers nor the event itself, despite the "outward social media (i.e. Twitter) appearances"
I guess many little issues all piled up together, made it the trip the way it was.

Learned a few things though:
- Stick to my guns and my instincts much, much better
- Some people are just so, rude that their "reputation" from others I heard (which I was holding out on believing outright), did precede them
- And other deep internalized realizations (or self discovery)...

The language and cultural differences didn't really affected the outcome for me (visited Japan before 2 years ago about the same time)... and definitely want to revisit again... but would be under much different set of circumstance.

Doubtful I want to go for JMoF again however... just isn't worth going for it specifically... but I digress...


Moving on, so, what trips have I got planned for this year?

- FurDU (Gold Coast, Australia)
- ConFuzzled (Birmingham, England)
- BLFC (Reno, USA)

Would be trips that flights are already booked/paid for, and accommodation "mostly" sorted.

Beyond that, will also be hitting some non-furry events.

Lastly, please... PLEASE if you really want to hang out/say hi/etc. etc. at any of the events I'm planning to be at, just approach.
Stop being "shy".
Stop using that as an excuse.

I guess life it too short to ponder the "what if's" and "what might have been". :|


That's it for now...

(Twitter is the best way to grab my attention these days, that or Telegram)